Easy as pie? post 17 Marcus Anderson

Tim Wise opens chapter 5 by making this remark, " Being white means never to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it still perhaps the most truest thing ever said about race in America."(133). I thought that this remark from James Baldwin was very profound. In all my experiences in life I have never heard a white person(s) having to deal with the struggles as minorities have in our society today. I believe that privilege is something that in most cases white people accept and in most cases is a natural thing rather it is acknowledged or not. I think that all whites really dint understand the privilege that society has dealt them. As we discussed in class, some feel that it is very difficult for the dominant to ' feel' for the perspectives and situations of minority groups. Our society has made it must harder for an minority to achieve equality and status within out society. But if a person is white within society, they don't ever have to face racial struggles or can choose to opt out as discussed in the chapter. The privilege determines the ease or struggles in racial groups in our society.